William Boyce was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of whom respected his work.
Vincent Novello, was an English musician and music publisher born in London. He was an organist, chorister, conductor and composer, but he is best known for bringing to England many works now considered standards, and with his son he created a major music publishing house.
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage.
The Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, in Birmingham, England, founded in 1784, was the longest-running classical music festival of its kind. It last took place in 1912.
A glee is a type of English part song composed during the Late Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods. The respectable and artistic character of glees contrasts with the bawdiness of the many catches which continued to be composed and sung well into the early years of the 19th century.
Jonathan Battishill was an English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to working as an organist and composer for the Church of England. He is considered one of the outstanding 18th century English composers of church music and is best remembered today for his seven-part anthem Call to Remembrance, which has long survived in the repertoires of cathedral choirs.
Sir John Andrew Stevenson was an Irish composer. He is best known for his piano arrangements of Irish Melodies with poet Thomas Moore. He was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Dublin and was knighted in April 1802.
James Hook was an English composer and organist and a friend of Joseph Haydn and Muzio Clementi.
William Beale was an English composer and baritone.
Felice de Giardini was an Italian composer and violinist.
John Lodge Ellerton was an English composer of classical music.
Theodore Aylward (1730–1801) was an English composer and organist. He was a member of the Royal Society of Musicians in 1763 and gained a prize medal from the Catch Club in 1769. He was organist successively of St Lawrence Jewry and St Michael, Cornhill (1769–1781), in London, and of St. George's Chapel, Windsor (1788–1801). As well as these appointments, he was the Gresham Professor of Music (1771–1801). During his lifetime he composed musical dramas, songs, canzonets and glees.
Teddington is an affluent suburb of London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex and situated close to the border with Surrey, the district became part of Greater London in 1965. In 2021, The Sunday Times named Teddington as the best place to live in London, and in 2023, the wider borough was ranked first in Rightmove's Happy at Home index, making it the "happiest place to live in Great Britain"; the first time a London borough has taken the top spot.
William Jackson was an English organist and composer, who also spent some time being a miller, his family's profession, in their home-town.
Bruno Siegfried Huhn was a British-born American composer, voice teacher, vocal coach, pianist, organist and conductor. Born in London, Huhn trained as a pianist privately and studied music at Trinity College London. He was active as a concert pianist in London and the British provinces from 1881-1889 before embarking on an international concert tour in 1889-1890. After spending some time in Australia at the conclusion of this tour, he returned briefly to England in June and July 1891 and moved to New York City immediately after this. Soon after he became a naturalized American citizen and the remainder of his career was spent in the United States, principally in New York City. There he was active as a church organist and choir master, choral conductor of community choirs, composer, and a highly celebrated vocal coach and voice teacher. Several of his vocal students became principal singers at the Metropolitan Opera. At the time of his death, The New York Times said he was best known for his musical setting of W.E. Henley's poem "Invictus".
Thomas Sanders Dupuis, Mus. Doc. (1733–1796) was a composer and organist of French extraction, born in London. He succeeded William Boyce at the Chapel Royal, and was regarded as one of the best organists of his day.
Alfred James Caldicott was an English musician and composer of operas, cantatas, children's songs, humorous songs and glees.
John Sale was an English bass singer of church music, and a singer and composer of glees.
William Thomas Parke was an English oboist and composer. He played in notable concerts of the day; in retirement he published Musical Memoirs.
Charles Knyvett was an English singer and organist. He established in 1791 in London the Vocal Concerts, a series of subscription concerts.
